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Last night, the Czech National Geographic aired the last episode of "Genius" about Einstein. The program was rescheduled for another season that will cover the life of Pablo Picasso. I think it was very well done and I have learned some new things about Einstein's life. Despite the systemic importance of Einstein in theoretical physics, the questions whom he argued with or whom he had sex with haven't been the things I've been immensely interested in – people who aren't into physics are often puzzled by this fact but those who have a clue aren't – but I think that it made sense to ...more »

(Photo courtesy MiG) *Defense Tech:* *MiG-35, Russia’s New 4th-Gen Light Fighter, Readies for Combat* SALON DU BOURGET, France — The next addition to Russia’s roster of fighter jets that bridge fourth- and fifth-generation technology may join units as soon as 2019, officials with the MiG Corporation told Military.com here at the Paris Air Show. The MiG-35, designed to replace MiG-29s rounding out their fourth decade in service, was absent from Paris but will be featured at the MAKS international airshow near Moscow in July as engineers finalize testing on the aircraft, said Anast...more »

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Its practices have defiled scientific integrity, but proposed corrections bring shock and defiance. Guest essay by John Rafuse President Trump’s budget guidance sought to cut $1.6 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency’s $8.1 billion expectation. Shrieks of looming Armageddon prompted Congress to fund EPA in full until September…

What will be left of rural television stations? Dual Freq, CC BY-SA While Americans were distracted by the very important public debates around an open internet and the proliferation of fake news online, the Federal Communications Commission quietly proposed reshaping a key way rural Americans stay informed – their local television news. Two decades-old rules – called by policymakers the “main studio rule” and the “UHF discount” – come from different eras of broadcasting, one when the only electronic media was radio and the other from the days before the dominance of cable televisio...more »

Originally posted on Climate Etc.: The National Climate Assessment must be redirected or terminated by Patrick J. Michaels Periodic National Assessments of the effects of climate change on the U.S. are mandated by the 1990 Global Change Research Act. The next Assessment Report is scheduled to be published in late 2018. The Assessment Report will be…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest essay by Larry Hamlin A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) from NOAA’s Earth System Laboratory, Boulder Colorado exposes and debunks the contrived claims of a recent renewable energy study which falsely alleged that low cost and reliable 100% renewable…

People without security clearances aren’t going to learn what the winning design for the Long Range Strike Bomber looks like anytime soon, but the Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber probably bears some resemblance. The lack of a fuselage or tail makes it much harder to track with radar; unfortunately, its stealth coatings and other “low-observable” features are a nightmare to maintain. (Wikipedia) *Kris Osborn, National Interest:* *We Now Know What It's Like To Go To War in a B-2 Stealth Bomber* As a stealth bomber engineered during the height of the Cold War, the B-2 was designed to elu...more »

That was my favorite tweet yesterday and I have to admit that I almost wish he gets his way. Almost. I don’t want to wish death on anyone, not even a vicious, racist Trump moron. Unless you define anyone who voted for Trump as a moron-- not an unreasonable conclusion to jump to-- you have to admit that not all Trump voters are morons. Racists, perhaps but not morons. Some are college graduates with good jobs in complicated fields. Although a friend of mine told me the other day that he was picked up by a black Uber driver with a MAGA cap who ranted and raved like a maniac for the w...more »

All of these are preparations for an “Evil Aliens” invasion Satanic HOAX! The ‘Evil Aliens’ invasion, is to prepare the sheeple to attack the Lord Jesus Christ on His 2nd coming. It is all ONE BIG SCAM. The sheeple will fall for this psyop big time. – The Satanic methods are: subtlety and deception! – […]

Published on Jun 24, 2017 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has ratified a treaty that hands over two uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. Sisi ratified the maritime border treaty days after parliament approved the deal. According to the agreement, Tiran and Sanafir islands will no longer be administered by Egypt and will be […]

CNN Deletes ‘Fake News’ Story About Russian Investment Ties To Trump by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com Thursday afternoon, CNN posted a story, by none other than Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter Thomas Frank, claiming that “Congress was investigating a Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.” – The story was perfect fodder for ‘The Left’ as it provided […]

NATO's Saber Stike and Balt Ops 2017 are pure security theater demonstrating an insignifcant response to a non-existent threat The post NATO’s latest exercise…is an exercise in futility appeared first on The Duran.

*VOA:* *UN: Cholera Cases in Yemen Could Top 300,000 by End of August* GENEVA — The U.N. Children's Fund warns cholera cases and deaths in war-torn Yemen continue to mount and could reach 300,000 by the end of August. UNICEF puts the current number of suspected cases at nearly 200,000, including more than 1,200 deaths — with a quarter of those being children. UNICEF says containing the cholera outbreak in Yemen is extremely difficult. It says the health system is near total collapse, water and sanitation systems are in disrepair and the people who are meant to care for patients...more »

A new report examines racial inequity in education and offers recommendations based off of research which touches on structural barriers that need to be overcome in order to improve educational outcomes for racial groups.

*if you don't know the story see:* Outrageous! Wild Bill for America ARRESTED in Canada... Please link and spread the word. Your freedom depend on it. I don't think any of us really understand how important this is. *God bless Wild Bill!*

War & Financial Calamity Two Biggest Trends – Gerald Celente by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Early Sunday Release) Top trends forecaster Gerald Celente thinks of all the things he studies, war and financial calamity are the two biggest trends he sees. The big game changer in the geopolitical global landscape is war coming from the Middle East. Celente […]

How America Armed Terrorists in Syria by GARETH PORTER • June 22, 2017, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ Another Middle East debacle Three-term Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a member of both the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, has proposed legislation that would prohibit any U.S. assistance to terrorist organizations in Syria as well as to any organization working directly […]

Published on Aug 29, 2013 A journey back in time, Hosted by Dr.Fredrick Toben, this intriguing documentary shows a little-known fact of WWII in which Jews at one time declared war on Germany. In response to this, many Jews were incarcerated in concentration camps, similar to what America did to the Japanese. Some Germans even […]

Two Italian Zombie Banks Toppled Friday Night by Wolf Richter, http://wolfstreet.com/ ECB shuts down Veneto Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza. When banks fail and regulators decide to liquidate them, it happens on Friday evening so that there is a weekend to clean up the mess. And this is what happened in Italy – with two […]

Published on Jun 24, 2017 MSNBC contributor makes the most insane anti-Trump analogy yet. Even the host of the show was a little taken back by it, but she doubled down. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story. end

Military Escalation on Russia’s Doorstep: Kiev Announces US Combat Troops Will Deploy in Donbass by EN.News Front, via http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Kiev, Ukraine. In remarkable events, that now look strangely related, the Ukrainian speaker of Parliament, the Rada-has announced Ukraine has an agreement with the United States of America to deploy combat troops to “assist” their martial law operation […]

*VOA*:* Iraqi Troops Push Deeper into Mosul* Iraqi forces pushed deeper into the historical heart of Mosul on Sunday in their fight to retake it from Islamic State militants, with one Baghdad commander saying that 65 to 70 percent of the Old City had been liberated. Lieutenant ColonelSalam al-Obeidi said, "There is less than a square kilometer left to retake." He estimated that there were only "a few hundred" Islamic State fighters left in the city. *Read more* .... *Battle For The Iraqi City of Mosul -- News Updates June 25, 2017* "Stench of death" from bodies of ISIS fighters...more »

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * A truth in modern warfare: Weapons do not always work as advertised. The United States Navy’s recent shoot down of a Syrian Arab Air Force Sukhoi Su-22 Fitter near the town of Tabqah over Syria is illustrative of a truth in modern warfare: Weapons do not always work as advertised. During the engagement between a pair of Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornets—flying off the aircraft carrier USS *George H.W. Bush* (CVN-77)—and the Fitter, advanced U.S. air-to-air missiles were decoyed at short-range. Indeed, as was reported by CNN, the Super Hornets first attacke...more »

*Kyle Mizokami* *Security, Middle East* Can it fight? One of the most powerful and influential countries in the Middle East is undoubtedly Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran sits astride several key strategic—and often volatile—regions, including the Persian Gulf, Central Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Caucasus. Iran is primarily a land power, and has invaded and suffered invasion from other peoples and countries over the past several thousand years. As a result, Iran retains large ground forces, both in the Iranian Army itself and the paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Co...more »

*Warfare History Network* *History, Europe* In 1938, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin undertook a secret prewar mission to Great Britain. At stake: another world war and the lives of millions. Many accounts have been written about the peace mission flight of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess and his parachute landing in a farm field in Scotland in May 1941 to discuss with the Duke of Hamilton a proposal to end hostilities. Hess was also Reich minister without portfolio and leader of the Nazi Party, among other titles. He piloted his own plane from Augsburg and bailed out over the duke’s estate...more »

*Zachary Keck* *Security, Middle East* Should America be worried? Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the six-year-long Syrian civil war, the conflict took another turn when Iran launched a missile attack against Islamic State militants in the province of Deir ez-Zour last Sunday. Iran depicted the attack, which was reportedly the first time Iran used missiles since the Iran-Iraq War, as a response to the ISIS attacks on the Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini earlier this month. Although ISIS provided the immediate impetus for the attacks, the...more »

*Michael Peck* *Security, * It was a crack in the wall that would eventually bring the Berlin Wall—and the Soviet Union itself—crashing down. On May 28, 1987, an eighteen-year-old German pilot who barely knew how to fly helped topple the Soviet Union. When Mathias Rust landed his Cessna in Red Square in Moscow, he set in motion of chain of events that contributed to the collapse of Communist rule. In the spring of 1987, Rust was nothing more than a restless teenager with quixotic dreams of creating peace between the United States and the Soviet Union. Rust told a Smithsonian *A...more »

*Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu* *Security, Eurasia* [image: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party (AKP) during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, June 13, 2017. Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Palace/Handout] The move was consistent with Ankara’s outreach to Doha over the last decade. A few weeks after the Saudi-led diplomatic blitz targeting Qatar, there is no doubt that Ankara stands firmly with Doha. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has developed a close albeit asymmetrical partnership with Qatar. Th...more »

*Milton Ezrati* *Economics, Americas* [image: A cargo ship sails across the ocean.] While President Trump’s new tone and actions may relieve people’s worst fears of protectionism, he still presents a threat on trade. Trump in recent weeks has offered reason for many to sigh with relief, at least where foreign trade is concerned. The man came into office in January preaching a strictly protectionist gospel. Though other aspects of his economic agenda had merit, the prospect of a trade war threatened to more than undo any economic good that might emerge from his other policies. Si...more »

*Anatol Lieven* *Foreign Policy, India* [image: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia, June 2, 2017. REUTERS/Valery Sharifulin/TASS/Host Photo Agency/Pool] The utopian belief in a globalized world without borders is dying in the West. *MARRIAGE BETWEEN* the *Economist* and the *New Left Review* may seem like one of Hieronymus Bosch’s stranger copulations. Liberal capitalists and Marxists have been drawn passionately together over the past few decades in one area: their common utopi...more »

*Denis Dragovic, Richard Iron* *Security, Middle East* [image: Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) stand in a house in Raqqa, Syria June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic] Some believe that the destruction of ISIS is the only thing standing between peace and eternal crisis. It isn’t. *THE ELIMINATION* of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria has become an unhealthy obsession for Western nations, most of which operate under the assumption that the destruction of ISIS is the only thing standing between peace and eternal crisis. It isn’t. Focusing on ISIS’s defeat ...more »

*Paul R. Pillar* *Afghanistan Syria, Middle East South Asia* The battle for Raqqa is now being waged, and the diverse forces that have been helping to extinguish the self-proclaimed caliphate of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) soon must face squarely what becomes of the portion of Syria that ISIS had controlled. It may be useful to recall an earlier and somewhat similar situation in which the defeat of a common enemy led not to peace and stability but instead to fighting among the victors. This occurred some two decades ago in another land in which, like Syria, the United St...more »

On June 25, 1876, Hunkpapa Lakota Mary Crawler also known as Moving Robe Woman was doing yard work when she heard that her brother had been slain by General Custer and his army. She immediately abandoned her work and headed to avenge her brother’s death. She describes this day in an interview given with Frank Zahn in 1931 of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, “I ran to a nearby thicket and got my black horse. I painted my face with crimson and braided my black hair. I was mourning. I was a woman, but I was not afraid.” She rode into battle with her father and other warriors and described ...more »

*Reuters*:* U.S.-backed Syrian groups take Raqqa district from Islamic State* A U.S.-backed Syrian coalition of Kurdish and Arab groups advanced against Islamic State in the jihadists' Syrian capital of Raqqa on Sunday, taking the al-Qadisia district, they said. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began its assault on Raqqa earlier this month after a long campaign to isolate Islamic State inside the city. It took Qadisia, located in the west of Raqqa, after three days of intense fighting, it said in a statement on one of its official social media feeds. The SDF has pushed Islami...more »

*The end of the GOP?* Friday, writing for *The Atlantic*, former Bush staffer David Frum noted the “mounting evidence” that Putin inflicted Trump on us by putting him into the White House and asked a poignant question for all Americans: What Happens When A Presidency Loses Its Legitimacy?. For many millions of Americans, perhaps most Americans, that’s already happened. Frum points to a n”thick cloud of discredit over the Trump presidency” that grows darker by the day and reminded his readers that, unaware he was being taped, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy admitted his his memb...more »

DETROIT — Jennifer Carr knows she’s not the profile of a typical college student. The Detroit-area woman is 37 and has battled alcohol and heroin addiction. She’s also been homeless in the past and even now is categorized as someone who is precariously housed. Carr’s story is not unusual. Studies suggest thousands of students at […]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A historically Black university in Florida is dealing with mounting financial problems. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Sunday a review of tax documents showed annual losses at Bethune-Cookman University have climbed over a three-year period from $254,000 to $17.8 million. The paper said that tax returns show that salaries are increasing […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Myron Rolle has accomplished many things on and off the field. His biggest ones, though, might still be coming up. Rolle’s dream of becoming a doctor came to fruition on May 20 when he graduated from Florida State’s College of Medicine. The former All-American safety and Rhodes Scholar has not had much […]

NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey community college has fired an adjunct professor after officials say she made racially insensitive comments on Fox News. Essex County College’s president announced the decision Friday, two weeks after Lisa Durden’s appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” College officials said they received complaints about Durden’s interview with Carlson. Durden, who […]

WILMINGTON, Del. — The University of Delaware is distancing itself from comments made by an adjunct professor after she said a college student who died after being held by North Korea “got exactly what he deserved.” The Wilmington News Journal reports that anthropology professor Kathy Dettwyler said on her personal Facebook page that Otto Warmbier […]

JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s largest community college has been put on warning by its accrediting body, which cited financial problems and other issues. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, in a statement Friday, said that Hinds Community College was sanctioned because it’s violating accrediting rules related to a sound financial base […]

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday refused to block a sex and race discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of Texas by former women’s track coach Bev Kearney, who was forced out after the school learned of a romantic relationship with one of her athletes a decade earlier. Kearney’s lawsuit claims that […]

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri’s Board of Curators has voted unanimously to revoke an honorary degree it granted to Bill Cosby. University system President Mun Choi recommended that the board strip the comedian of a doctorate in humane letters he received in 1999. Choi cited allegations from several women that Cosby sexually assaulted […]

“Under dark skies the setting of the Milky Way can be a dramatic sight. Stretching nearly parallel to the horizon, this rich, edge-on vista of our galaxy above the dusty Namibian desert stretches from bright, southern Centaurus (left) to Cepheus in the north (right). *Click image for larger size.* From early August, the digitally stitched, panoramic night skyscape captures the Milky Way's congeries of stars and rivers of cosmic dust, along with colors of nebulae not readily seen with the eye. Mars, Saturn, and Antares, visible even in more luminous night skies, form the the bright c...more »

"Shaya's Home Run" by Rabbi Paysach Krohn "In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning-disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school careers, while others can be mainstreamed into conventional yeshivos and Bais Yaakovs. There are a few children who attend Chush for most of the week and go to a regular school on Sundays. At a Chush fund-raising dinner, the father of a Chush child delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he cried out, “Where is the perfecti...more »

*"Three Passions" * "Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of people. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in ...more »

"Never Despair" by Sam Smith "Empires and cultures are not permanent and while thinking about the possibility that ours is collapsing may seem a dismal exercise it is far less so than enduring the frustrations, failures, damage and human casualties involved in constantly butting up against reality like a boozer who insists he is not drunk attempting to drive home. Peter Ustinov in 'Romanoff and Juliet' says at one point: "I'm an optimist: I know how bad the world is. You're a pessimist: you're always finding out." Or as GK Chesterton put it, "We must learn to love life without ever...more »

EXCLUSIVE: @PeteHegseth sits down with President Trump to talk health care, vets, & hostility among the parties. https://t.co/Xe9aJcCxZN — FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) June 25, 2017 Check out how this tool Peter Hegseth starts this interview: *"You've faced resistance on this bill, but of course you've faced resistance on the entirety of you agenda. Whose been your biggest opponent? Has it been Democrats resisting, has it been fake news media, has it been deep state leaks?"* That is literally how Alex Jones would start an interview with Donald Trump. No wonder Trump only gives i...more »

Photograph of the briefing room on Feb. 7 by Doug Mills/The New York Times *Politico:* *W.H. Correspondents' Association: We are not satisfied with off-camera briefings* White House Correspondents' Association President Jeff Mason said they are "not satisfied" with the White House putting a halt on their daily, on-camera briefings. In an email to members of the association, Mason said he met with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to discuss the issues of the briefings. The White House has increasingly changed the daily briefi...more »

*"In Blackwater Woods"* "Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, and every pond, no matter what its name is, is nameless now. Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation, whose meaning none of us will ever know. To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hol...more »

*Eli Lake, Bloomberg:* *The Ex-Journalist Who Says Al-Jazeera Aids Terrorists* *A lawsuit based on prison interviews in Egypt claims that the network has become a "mouthpiece for Qatari intelligence."* Mohamed Fahmy is the last person one would expect to make the case against al-Jazeera. In 2014, the former Cairo bureau chief for the Qatar-funded television network began a 438-day sentence in an Egyptian prison on terrorism charges and practicing unlicensed journalism. His incarceration made al-Jazeera a powerful symbol of resistance to Egypt's military dictatorship. Today Fahmy...more »

French President, Emmanuel Macron, recently departed from his campaign proposals on the Syrian War by saying that “My lines are clear: Firstly, a complete fight against all the terrorist groups. They are our enemies.” Promising more cooperation with Russia in eradicating terrorism, Macron added that he sees no legitimate successor to President Bashar al-Assad and that […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

* "The Madman"* by Kahlil Gibran "It was in the garden of a madhouse that I met a youth with a face pale and lovely and full of wonder. And I sat beside him upon the bench, and I said, “Why are you here?” And he looked at me in astonishment, and he said, “It is an unseemly question, yet I will answer you. My father would make of me a reproduction of himself; so also would my uncle. My mother would have me the image of her seafaring husband as the perfect example for me to follow. My brother thinks I should be like him, a fine athlete. And my teachers also, the doctor of philosophy,...more »

A teenager fell about 25 feet from a stopped gondola ride at an upstate New York amusement park, tumbling into a crowd of park guests and employees gathered below to catch her before she hit the ground.

I am above all else a student of Michel Foucault, a prominent French intellectual of the late twentieth century. Recently, a CIA Directorate of Intelligence report on French philosophy in the 1980s was de-classified: CIA Directorate of Intelligence (1985). France: Defection of the Leftist Intellectuals Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/05/13 : CIA-RDP86S00588R000300380001-5. Available https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86S00588R000300380001-5.PDF This report is being discussed widely across the electronic public sphere with one of the best reviews of the re...more »

*Michael Crowley, Politico:* *Trump allies push White House to consider regime change in Tehran* *As the new administration conducts a routine review of its Iran policy, senior officials are hinting that they're open to toppling the country's clerical regime.* As the White House formulates its official policy on Iran, senior officials and key allies of President Donald Trump are calling for the new administration to take steps to topple Tehran’s militant clerical government. Supporters of dislodging Iran’s iron-fisted clerical leadership say it’s the only way to halt Tehran’s dan...more »

Mexico was just ranked the second deadliest country in the world, after only Syria. Drug trade is largely the cause. We will BUILD THE WALL! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017 Courtesy of WaPo: *Trump’s Twitter feed is a gold mine for every foreign intelligence agency. Usually, intelligence officers’ efforts to collect information on world leaders are methodical, painstaking and often covert. CIA operatives have risked their lives to learn about foreign leaders so the United States could devise strategies to counter our adversaries. With Trump, though, secret oper...more »

*David Keene, The Washington Times:* *Why the FBI is hard to trust* *The Federal Bureau of Investigation claims to be above politics, but that’s not so* Can anyone with a modicum of common sense trust the Federal Bureau of investigation? The answer to that question is a resounding “no.” The claim that the FBI strives to be above politics is today and has always been absurd. When former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover admitted in an interview that his “agents” had tapped the phones of 1964 Republican candidate Barry Goldwater and even bugged his campaign plane, Mr. Hoover told his int...more »

Diane Ravitch's Network for Public Education (NPE) recently published a position statement on charter schools that directly challenges her widely-heralded commitment to quality public schools for all children who choose them. NPE's new statement on charter schools explicitly acknowledges that Ravitch and her corporate union patrons support the continued operation of the nation’s 7,500 segregated charter schools, now draining away billions of public dollars each year for the principal benefit of racist corporate colonizers in urban communities (my bolds): . . . we recognize that m...more »

*Terence Newton* - The message here is interesting considering that so many bits of disclosure have been happening recently. The post Anonymous Claims NASA is About to Disclose the Discovery of Alien Life appeared first on Waking Times.

*-by Noah* Well, it’s out. The mangy, one-eyed, 3-legged cat is out of the bag. We have now seen Trumpcare, AKA the Republican Party’s “healthcare” plan. It may go down as Trump’s biggest bait and switch ever. It’s pay more for worse insurance and while we’re at it, we’re cutting Medicaid and redistributing the wealth of American citizens upward, bigly. You didn’t really think Trump was going to give us something that didn’t increase the flow of cash to his own pockets, did you? This thing kinda sounds like Russia’s post-revolution Communist Party back when party members took all...more »

X22 Report, “The Collapse Will Be Driven By A Credit Collapse, Has The Date Been Set?” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTuiUkKMByw *Related followup report:* X22 Report. “Did You Feel It, Something Has Changed” ◆ "It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford

"You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-" - Conn...more »

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: From the “now the warmest year on record hopes are dashed” department: Via Bloomberg: All eight climate models surveyed by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology suggest tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures are likely to remain neutral for the second half, it said on its website on Tuesday. That reverses a June 6…

*Kimberly Dozier, Daily Beast*: *How Moscow's Spies Keep Duping America—Over and Over Again* *The White House wants to warm up to Moscow, eventually. But CIA veterans say we tried that.* SEA ISLAND, Georgia — The Russian intelligence officers picked up the American spies from Moscow’s Metropole Hotel and drove them a few short blocks to an ornate, lushly appointed guest house. It used to be the home of a wealthy Jewish dentist before being turned into a meeting place for Russia’s intelligence services. The 17th-century mansion served as the backdrop of a 2007 summit of CIA office...more »

Courtesy of The Hill: *The London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat reports that Kushner's meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was “tense,” according to a translation from the Jerusalem Post, and Abbas was reportedly furious at Kushner relaying the demands of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. * *Israeli newspaper Haaretz also reports that Palestinian officials were “greatly disappointed” by their meeting with Kushner and Trump’s Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt. * *"They sounded like Netanyahu's advisers and not like fair arbiters," a senior Palestinian...more »

*"The Greater Depression"* By Cognitive Dissonance "Once or twice a month Mrs. Cog and I pack up the car and head to Winston-Salem, North Carolina. For us poor mountain folk, that’s the big city and the best destination when our need for certain items calls for visiting particular stores. Each trip down from the mountain elicits at least one observation about recent changes to the Matrix. For example, Mrs. Cog noticed the big box stores appear to be reducing their selection significantly. Once it was brought to my attention, it was suddenly obvious they were narrowing their invento...more »

*Reuters:* *Top Democrat slams Obama administration's response to Russian hacks* WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Sunday criticized the administration of former President Barack Obama for not taking earlier and tougher action against Russia for its alleged hacks aimed at swaying the Nov. 8 election for Donald Trump. "The Obama administration should have done a lot more when it became clear that not only was Russia intervening, but it was being directed at the highest levels of the Kremlin," said Representative Adam Schiff on CNN's...more »

*Below:* The story of the *Jakarta Kid* 1. JAKARTA: SIX DEGREES SOUTH Why Indonesia? Adventure, discovery, love, waifs and strays One of the world's great hot steamy cities Three bedroom house . 2. NIGHT AND DAY Gamesman's Bar Pop Gun The Bintang Disco The Ranamok and the J Bar Bogor 3. THE HILL TOWN OF BOGOR Budi Doctor Carmen Brother John The Third World 4 THE HIGHLAND CITY OF BANDUNG Minor scrapes on the road to Bandung Abdul His father's taken up with another woman The Savoy Where can the child stay? 5. TWO WEDDINGS Budi Asep and a wedding Five star wedding 6. ONE HAND A...more »

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:30 P.M.) – Protesters in Bani Walid rallied on Saturday night calling for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, to lead the country. “We call on the son of Libya Mujahid Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to lead the national movement to resolve the forms in Libya and to get […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:35 P.M.) – The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham launched a fresh assault this afternoon in the Golan Heights region, following another airstrike by the Israeli Air Force. Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and their allies reportedly began their assault after an Israeli warplane struck the Syrian Arab Army’s positions near the Old Government […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (7:15 P.M.) – A group of U.S. Congressmen suggested Trump administration to leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), Politico reported on Saturday. The initiators accused Russia of violating the terms of this agreement, thus considering it inexpedient for the United States to follow observe the treaty any further. For instance, Mike […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

(IRNA) The commander of Aerospace Force of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (IRGC) said on Sunday that one of their missiles hit the target and a gas tank that caused a huge fire. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said on the June 18 missile attack on Daesh hit the target but […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

(Associated Press) The U.S. military coalition fighting the Islamic State would welcome a concerted effort by the Syrian government or its Iranian-backed partner forces to defeat IS in its remaining strongholds in eastern Syria, a U.S. spokesman said Friday. Army Col. Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the coalition, told reporters at the Pentagon that the U.S. […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*AFP:* *Venezuela unrest: Anti-govt protests leave 75 dead in 3 months; 3,000 arrested* Caracas: A 22-year-old man was shot dead on Thursday during an anti-government protest in Caracas, becoming the 75th victim in three months of unrest over the rule of President Nicolas Maduro. The young man was killed during a demonstration in the capital's Altamira area, the public ministry said on Twitter, without specifying the type of weapon that killed him. Opposition lawmaker Jose Manuel Olivares said the man had been shot by a member of the National Guard. Near-daily protests against M...more »

Global Research, RINF, CounterPunch, Countercurrents What might a future India look like? If current policies continue, it could mean dozens of mega-cities with up to 40 million inhabitants and just two to three hundred million (perhaps 15-20% of the population) left in an emptied-out countryside. It could also mean hundreds of millions of former rural dwellers without any work and thus anywhere decent to live in these cities. And what about the countryside? Given the trajectory the country seems to be on, it does not take much to imagine vast swathes of chemically-drenched monocrop ...more »

*"War, Financial Calamity 2 Biggest Trends: Gerald Celente"* By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com "Top trends forecaster Gerald Celente thinks of all the things he studies, war and financial calamity are the two biggest trends he sees. The big game changer in the geopolitical global landscape is war coming from the Middle East. Celente explains, “It’s the war against Iran. That’s the way we see it, and we recently did a trend alert on it. *The Iran war will be World War III.* It will also probably be the war to end all wars and a good part of civilization if it happens. These are the P...more »

US rules out "land-grab" in Syria; says Syria 'welcome' to defeat ISIS and free Deir Ezzor. The post BREAKING: No partition of eastern Syria; US “welcomes Syria destroying ISIS” there appeared first on The Duran.

Guido Fawkes https://order-order.com/ reports: 'Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has said Jeremy Corbyn told him he will get rid of Trident "as soon as I can". Quotes via Somerset Live:When asked about the Labour leader's appearance, Michael Eavis said: "Wasn't he fantastic?" "I said to when are you going to be prime minister? He said: 'In six months'." Eavis said he asked Corbyn: "When are you going to get rid of Trident?""He said: 'as soon as I can'." Any coverage on the BBC yet?

What good, for that matter, is any political party? In this country, we have two major oligarchic political parties, otherwise known as the Duopoly. The Republicans, at this moment led by a thuggish reality TV star posing as a populist, devolved into two separate factions early in the regime of Barack Obama. The first group are "moderate" Republicans who aim to reward the rich under as much platitudinous cover of darkness as they can get away with. The second are renegades of the astroturf variety who do the dirty deeds as flamboyantly and as enthusiastically as possible. The firs...more »

Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) are driven past the stand with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other high ranking officials during a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country's founding father Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj *Yuval Noah Harari, Time*: *Why It’s No Longer Possible for Any Country to Win a War* The last few decades have been the most peaceful era in human history. For the first time ever, fewer people die today from human violence than from traffic accidents, obesity or even suicide. Whereas in early ...more »

Friday evening, we warned that by handing the Nevada Senate nomination over to worthless conservaDem Jackie Rosen-- who has already managed to stake out a claim as one of the worst freshman Dems in Congress (with a ProgressivePunch “F” score and a crucial vote rating of 33.33 for the current session, worse than conservative North Carolina Republican Walter Jones and tied with Michigan Republican Justin Amash, and the 4th worst of any Democratic first termer-- Schumer would be snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory in the best shot the Democrats have for picking up a Republica...more »

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